Casey Clinger 4:07.52 ... beats Ben Saarel's Utah Record

Man, what a year.

Would love to see Clinger, Slagowski, and Hunter duking it out at the mile. When and where? Meet directors, get that sh*t together!!

good for him wrote:

Man, what a year.

Would love to see Clinger, Slagowski, and Hunter duking it out at the mile. When and where? Meet directors, get that sh*t together!!

Could you imagine a Dream Mile consisting of Clinger, Slagowski, Hunter, Tamagno, and Rocha?

Being a Utah state champion involves a conflagration of incredibly special circumstances and the memories are precious! I am extremely happy for this young man!

Freakin amazing kid. Reserved, respectful, humble a great young man to speak with. American Fork team and coach...well it just doesn't get any better. Wish them all great health and maybe a little bit of National recognition would be nice. Wishing them the best!

Clinger isn't even listed in top 25 nationally by Flotrack? Won't get invited to dream mile. No Pre no Brooks PR etc. Look at who he beat last month at Arcadia in the 3200. Look at who American Fork # 2 and 3 beat at Arcadia, all juniors. Oh well, a storm is coming...called American Fork.

Saarel ran 8:45 for 3200 in HS, not 8:48. Also fun fact he just ran a 3:39 1500 today and dominated his heat at Oxy.

yo waddup wrote:

Saarel ran 8:45 for 3200 in HS, not 8:48.

yo waddup wrote:

Saarel ran 8:45 for 3200 in HS, not 8:48. Also fun fact he just ran a 3:39 1500 today and dominated his heat at Oxy.

Actually I believe Ben ran 8:49 his senior year at the BYU invite in Provo which is like 10 days before State on the same track. At 4600 feet. I believe Ben ran like 8:45 at Arcadia the month before. JUNIOR, Casey Clinger won Arcadia last month with an 8:50. However, you got to watch that video. You got 2" of rain on entire turns. The track was a water soaked sponge. Heard tell that no one looks up to Ben Saarel more.. than...you guessed it, Casey Clinger.

Casey's running the 2 mile at Brooks PR.

http://www.flotrack.org/event/253024-2016-brooks-pr-invitational/entries

2 Mile YR HOMETOWN

Aidan Tooker SR Saratoga Springs, NY

Casey Clinger JR American Fork, UT

Brody Smith SR Cody, WY

Reed Brown JR Southlake, TX

Ben Veatch SR Carmel, IN

Jack Van Scoter SR La Canada, CA

Noah Affolder JR Carthage, NY

Austin Tamagno SR Brea, CA

Cooper Teare JR Alameda, CA

Casey's running the 2 mile at Brooks PR.

http://www.flotrack.org/event/253024-2016-brooks-pr-invitational/entries

2 Mile YR HOMETOWN

Aidan Tooker SR Saratoga Springs, NY

Casey Clinger JR American Fork, UT

Brody Smith SR Cody, WY

Reed Brown JR Southlake, TX

Ben Veatch SR Carmel, IN

Jack Van Scoter SR La Canada, CA

Noah Affolder JR Carthage, NY

Austin Tamagno SR Brea, CA

Cooper Teare JR Alameda, CA[/quote]

Thank you coach for the correction. Did not mean to sound out of line. Just feel AF is #1 nationally and Casey is in top 3 with Hunter and Slagowski individually. Just my opinion, Best wishes to you all.

Trunk Runner wrote:

good for him wrote:

Man, what a year.

Would love to see Clinger, Slagowski, and Hunter duking it out at the mile. When and where? Meet directors, get that sh*t together!!

Could you imagine a Dream Mile consisting of Clinger, Slagowski, Hunter, Tamagno, and Rocha?

Okay Phillip take it easy...though you have had good results...you are not at their level. Herrera would be better suited to race them not you.

paingain wrote:

JUNIOR, Casey Clinger won Arcadia last month with an 8:50. However, you got to watch that video.

Okay phillip lmao wrote:

Trunk Runner wrote:

Could you imagine a Dream Mile consisting of Clinger, Slagowski, Hunter, Tamagno, and Rocha?

Okay Phillip take it easy...though you have had good results...you are not at their level. Herrera would be better suited to race them not you.

Yeah haha what has Phillip Rocha done as a miler that would put him anywhere near the level of Slagowski or Hunter? 4:11 PR vs. 3:57 indoor and 3:59. Not to mention that although Clinger is a big talent, he's still at least a good 8+ seconds off where Hunter/Slagowski are (even farther from Hunter - and even more because he ran 1600 and they both went the full mile). Tamagno would also smoke Clinger in a mile.

Utah is consistently underrated in the pre season due to altitude slowing times down. Clinger is a huge talent and a great young Mormon. Eyestone will be the perfect coach to develop his talent further.

Yeah haha what has Phillip Rocha done as a miler that would put him anywhere near the level of Slagowski or Hunter? 4:11 PR vs. 3:57 indoor and 3:59. Not to mention that although Clinger is a big talent, he's still at least a good 8+ seconds off where Hunter/Slagowski are (even farther from Hunter - and even more because he ran 1600 and they both went the full mile). Tamagno would also smoke Clinger in a mile.[/quote]

A little skinny on BYU State meet altitude. Last year Connor Mantz took second in the 1600 with a 4:13,lost to Josh Collins. So Mantz gets invited to Dream Mile and runs a 4:08. In 2013 Senior Ben Saarel runs 4:07.95 at BYU State and goes to Dream Mile, wins it with a 4:02, beating Ches I think. Junior Casey Clinger, two days ago breaks Ben's 4:07:95. I see Tamagno has signed up to go head to head with Casey in the 2 at Brooks PR. Several amazing guys in the race, guess we will see. Casey and Slagowski have not gone this route of running with the pros.

In 2014 Sara Feeny won Utah State 1600 at BYU altitude in 4:45. Then went to full mile Dream mile and won that in 4:39. If Feeny, Saarel and Mantz had run full mile at BYU State, times would have been what 1.49 or 1.5 slower? So what exactly is the drop coming down from altitude. Seems fair to say 6 seconds? Just for argument sake. Casey's 4:07:5, on wet track is pretty good.

Good luck to JUNIOR Casey Clinger.

I smoked weed with ben once

yo waddup wrote:

Okay phillip lmao wrote:

Okay Phillip take it easy...though you have had good results...you are not at their level. Herrera would be better suited to race them not you.

Yeah haha what has Phillip Rocha done as a miler that would put him anywhere near the level of Slagowski or Hunter? 4:11 PR vs. 3:57 indoor and 3:59. Not to mention that although Clinger is a big talent, he's still at least a good 8+ seconds off where Hunter/Slagowski are (even farther from Hunter - and even more because he ran 1600 and they both went the full mile). Tamagno would also smoke Clinger in a mile.

Haha ok..... thats what people said about Tamagno at NXN, and see what happened there. Clinger can go sub 4 this year. He'll beat Tamagno at Brooks PR

Yes, Ben ran 8:49 at the track at BYU. Ben and Casey are both in the same category but two different running styles. Clinger is more like Luke Puskedra, he is the type of runner who can take it from the gun and run for time. Ben was not. Ben was never a front runner. He was the type to run the race only to win, never to lead. Luckily because he was in high level races he did produce some good times. His victory at Arcadia included a 55 last lap. He could have gone faster. He ran the 8:49 at BYU during his highest mileage week ever and lead the whole thing, he hated that race and said it was the hardest thing he ever did. That converts to 8:36 at sea level. The 4:07 was also run during a high mileage week because he wanted to train through state to peak at the dream mile. Don't forget, at that dream mile he beat Edward Cheserek, Sean McGorty, Andres Arroyo, Blake Haney and Bernie Montoya. No small feat. The 4:02 was run into a 30 mph wind on the backstretch or it would have been sub 4.

All of that said... Clinger is the best hope to ever break Ben's records. Because he can run solo for time he is likely to get them. He certainly is on track if he can stay healthy and improve his senior year. That is the real trick. Many superstar Juniors have not left room to increase their mileage and improve as a senior. Connor Mantz, Bernie Montoya and a lot of others were already tapped out in their training. However, AF is well coached and I am pretty sure Timo is smart enough to have left some in reserve for Clinger's senior year. There are also other guys at AF that are a threat to Clinger, it will keep him pushing for sure. It will be fun to watch. If he does break that 8:49 it will be one of the greatest performances of any high schooler in a 3200.

The real shame is that Nike Nationals and Foot locker west are on the same day. It is set up in a way that prevents Clinger from running foot locker. Because clinger is on a great team he will not get a chance to go up against the best individuals who are at Foot Locker.